Four score and seventeen days ago, we announced our acceptance into the Portland Seed Fund.
Today we are proud to announce that we have graduated.
To mark the occasion, here for posterity is our demo pitch, verbatim!
Jim Huston and Angela Jackson were phenomenal in putting together an amazing demo day, with a packed... »

UPDATE 2014:
Sadly (for us), Chirpify pivoted away from Twitter-based payments so this post is now obsolete.
We will add Paypal support at some point for people who need that payment option (keep bugging us if that’s you!)
and we’ve now added direct
Twitter integration.
We’re often advised that Beeminder should be more social.
As a couple of... »

About

Beeminder is goal-tracking with teeth. We plot your progress on a yellow brick road to your goal and if you go off track we take your money.

The Beeminder blog is a hodgepodge of productivity nerdery and behavioral economics written by the founders and various friends.

Start Here

Does Beeminder sound super crazypants? Just confusing? One of the first things you may want to check out is our User's Guide for New Bees. Check out other posts we're most proud of by clicking the "best-of" tag below. If you're a glutton for honey, the "bee-all" tag has everything we still think is worth reading. Other good ones are the "rationality" and "science" tags, if you're into that.

Akrasia

Akrasia (ancient Greek ἀκρασία, "lacking command over oneself"; adjective: "akratic") is the state of acting against one's better judgment, not doing what one genuinely wants to do. It encompasses procrastination, lack of self-control, lack of follow-through, and any kind of addictive behavior.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia